mantel.rtest {ade4}R Documentation

Mantel test (correlation between two distance matrices (in R).)

Description

Performs a Mantel test between two distance matrices.

Usage

mantel.rtest(m1, m2, nrepet = 99)

Arguments

m1 an object of class dist
m2 an object of class dist
nrepet the number of permutations

Value

an object of class rtest (randomization tests)

Author(s)

Daniel Chessel
Stéphane Dray dray@biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr

References

Mantel, N. (1967) The detection of disease clustering and a generalized regression approach. Cancer Research, 27, 209–220.

Examples

    data(yanomama)
    gen <- quasieuclid(as.dist(yanomama$gen))
    geo <- quasieuclid(as.dist(yanomama$geo))
    plot(r1 <- mantel.rtest(geo,gen), main = "Mantel's test")
    r1

[Package ade4 version 1.4-11 Index]